Emerging Technologies, Novel Crimes and Security: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

This book provides a holistic overview of the complexities of modern technological advances and their implications for crime and security. It examines the societal dilemmas that accompany these technologies, their strategic impact on geopolitics, governments, business, and civil society.

The increasingly interconnected world gives rise to novel crimes and creates a new, complex set of threats. Understanding this landscape is essential to strategizing for the prevention, protection, mitigation, and risk assessment of technology-related crime.

Practical and approachable, this book builds knowledge and awareness of the impact of emerging technologies on crime and security among professionals, students, academicians, researchers, and policymakers.

Hedi Nasheri is a Professor of Cybercriminology & Global Security at Kent State University & a Visiting Professor of Technology Crimes in the Faculty of Law at the University of Turku in Finland. Her academic and practical experiences have focused for a number of years on cybercrime, global security and intellectual property crimes. She has collaborated with members of the Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a number of domestic and international educational & research projects related to cybercrimes and intellectual property.

More recently, Professor Nasheri served as a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany and as a Senior Fellow in the Policy Division of the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) in Washington DC. She has held a number of Visiting Scholar appointments at New York University School of Law, Columbia University, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.